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Jiang presents slavery as a historical energy substitute: when cheap oil is unavailable, societies may again use enslaved human beings to run the economy.
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Cheap OIL
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Jiang says the current global economic order rests on cheap oil, and with Hormuz likely closed for years, the world loses the energy basis for globalization.
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Jiang predicts de-industrialization over the next five to ten years because modern food, plastics, EVs, AI, and data centers all depend on cheap oil that the war is putting out of reach.
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Jiang says the loss of cheap oil would force societies to either push urban populations back toward farming or face starvation as nations.
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Jiang predicts that within a year or two the end of cheap oil will force many states into de-industrialization and mercantilist rebuilding of self-sufficient supply chains.
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"...used human beings, right? You can no longer have access to cheap oil. What you do is, you enslave. You enslave people. And that's..."
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"...the current global economic order is based on the premise of cheap oil, right? Because cheap oil is the basis for everything. You know,..."
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"...why because the entire global economy is based on access to cheap oil from the gcc right not only uh is energy based on..."
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"...right now the modern economy is based entirely on access to cheap oil cheap oil is the basis not just for energy but also..."
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"...engage in massive de -industrialization because they can no longer access cheap oil. More and more nations will start to engage in mercantilism."
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"And they need to create their own self -sufficient supply chains. And the nation that is in most dire need right now is actually..."
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"...Venezuela as long it's a stable place where China can get cheap oil it doesn't make sense okay all right the last thing is..."
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"...these roads, okay? Because China was able to import all this cheap oil from the GCC. And then the GCC would take this money,..."
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"...humans were the cheap energy. If you don't have access to cheap oil, well, then you're gonna enslave human beings, all right? This is..."
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"...to China to make sure that they don't have access to cheap oil. That's outside of our ability to sanction. Yeah. I'm like, this..."
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"...all the time. And again, this is because of access to cheap oil. But those days are gone. And basically, like economies need to..."
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"...onto the global market. And you can do that again with cheap oil and a global marketplace. But once, you know, nations start to..."
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